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Is it possible to extract all emails+contacts from yahoo without paying ? furthermore my paypal account is linked to yahoo.
by camus2 10y ago
Is it possible to extract all emails+contacts from yahoo without paying ? furthermore my paypal account is linked to yahoo.
- jacobolus 10y agoYes, you need to scrape their webpages. 10 years ago when I pulled everything from my Yahoo acct, there were several choices of open source scripts which could do it.
- newscracker 10y agoNo, it's no longer necessary to resort to scraping the webmail pages. You can easily setup a client like Mozilla Thunderbird for IMAP with Yahoo and get all your mails and folders on to it for free. I have done this recently and it has been working. Only the ad-free webmail from Yahoo is a paid option.
- brightsize 10y agoYou could use an IMAP client such as Thunderbird to copy your mail away from these clowns to another service that supports IMAP. Fastmail has an IMAP-based bulk importer that in my experience works well. I used it to hoover all of my mail out of GApps and into my FM account.
- newscracker 10y agoDownload Mozilla Thunderbird, setup a new account with your Yahoo credentials and it will auto-configure it for IMAP. This does not require any payment. I did it recently and am still using it. You need to setup folder synchronization for offline downloads of all the messages and folders you have on your account.